Sep 04, 2013

According to current estimates, more than 76 million people in the United States suffer from chronic or acute pain. Opioid analgesics are a widely accepted treatment for severe acute pain, but use of ...

Aug 27, 2013

Millions of patients find it extremely difficult to achieve durable weight loss without medical intervention. Many opt for bariatric surgery to achieve a healthier weight, but up to 30% of patients wh...

Aug 26, 2013

Studies have shown that patients with localized prostate cancer have favorable long-term overall survival rates and cancer-specific survival regardless of the treatment that is selected. Few prospecti...

Aug 16, 2013

Numerous studies have demonstrated that 30-day postoperative complications resulting from unintended harm adversely affect patients and their families and increase institutional healthcare costs. Seve...

Aug 15, 2013

Current clinical guidelines from three medical societies suggest that the hemoglobin threshold for blood transfusions during surgery should be 7 g/dl or 8 g/dl. These guidelines also note that patient...

Aug 14, 2013

Following the recent FDA approval of new medications to reduce cardiovascular death and heart attack in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and developments in the literature, the American Co...

Jul 30, 2013

In 2003, a study of more than 1,000 patients who underwent gastric bypass found that one-third of those with diabetes at baseline had normal blood sugars after their surgery and didn’t need medicati...

Jul 22, 2013

Requirements for surgical proficiency are generally based on an absolute number of procedures completed, but the pace at which people are trained or become proficient in a procedure tends to be highly...

Jul 02, 2013

The Particulars: Prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) appears to affect survival, according to several studies, and has been associated with morbidity and mortality among patients who undergo transcathet...

Jul 01, 2013

Anesthesiology is one of 21 medical specialties in the United States that is currently experiencing a physician shortage or expected to have one in the near future. The causes of physician workforce s...

Jul 01, 2013

Minneapolis, MN: Researchers have announced the results of a retrospective 5-year study, which shows that echocardiography can be useful in identifying new strategies for combatting the growth failure...

Jul 01, 2013

Minneapolis, MN: Researchers have announced the results of a study which shows a key difference in the patient’s baseline heart size and function following Transcatheter Valve Replacement (TAVR) tha...

Jun 07, 2013

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Jun 04, 2013

Researchers from New York suggest that readmissions after CABG may be reduced through careful postoperative surveillance for risk factors and frequent causes of readmission. The study team found that ...

Jun 04, 2013

Among patients with early stage breast cancer, breast-conserving therapy with radiation appears to be associated with a better disease-specific survival (DSS) when compared with mastectomy. A large in...

Jun 03, 2013

In patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) infections, the development of CIED-related infective endocarditis and the presence of comorbid conditions appear to increase short...

Jun 03, 2013

A Cleveland Clinic study suggests that early resection using frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) surgery may improve seizure outcomes. Age younger than 18 and epilepsy duration of less than 5 years were both ...

Jun 03, 2013

The risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) appears to be higher for current smokers when compared with never smokers among patients undergoing surgery in the 12 weeks after their procedure. The British ...

Jun 03, 2013

Among patients who have undergone drug-eluting stent implantation, a follow-up care plan consisting of follow-up phone calls at 7 days and 1, 6, and 9 months after the procedure appears to improve dru...

Jun 02, 2013

The Particulars: In patients with lung cancer, studies suggest that comorbidities appear to frequently impact treatment decisions due to a fear of causing harm without achieving benefit. The impact of...